Chan family home on Punchbowl Hill in a scene from The Black Camel (1931)

January 2013

"Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate."

1 Tuesday

New Year's Day

2 Wednesday

3 Thursday

4 Friday

5 Saturday

6 Sunday

7 Monday

WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING: We begin this year's Charlie Chan
Tour with Behind That Curtain; E. L. Park appears briefly as Charlie Chan and we are treated to an
early film appearance by Boris Karloff. Please join us as we discuss this film LIVE, watching it together via
video tape or DVD!

Keye Luke, who portrayed Charlie Chan's number one son, Lee, in twelve Chan
films and one Mr. Moto movie, dies in Whittier, California of a stroke on this day in 1991.

13 Sunday

14 Monday

WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING:Eran Trece, the Spanish language version of the "lost" Charlie Chan Carries On, starring Manuel Arbo as Charlie Chan. Please join us as we discuss this
film LIVE, watching it together via video tape or DVD!

J. Carrol Naish, who would play Charlie Chan in The New Adventures
of Charlie Chan television series (1957-58), is born in New York, New York, on this day in 1896. He also played
Gangor the snake charmer in the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan at the Circus (1935).

J. Carrol Naish, who portrayed Charlie Chan in The New Adventures
of Charlie Chan television series, dies in La Jolla, California, on this day in 1973.

25 Friday

26 Saturday

27 Sunday

28 Monday

WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING:The Black Camel starring Warner Oland in the oldest existing picture from the Charlie Chan film
series proper. Please join us as we discuss this film LIVE, watching it together via video tape or DVD!